Arad Thompson Barrows saved Eugene LeClair from drowning, Brunswick, Maine, September 26, 1924. LeClair, 35, laborer, fell from a temporary dam in the Androscoggin River upon log cribbing of a wrecked dam from which the filling had been washed and landed astride a log, where the water was 3.5 feet deep. He clung desperately to the log but could not get his head above the water, which dropped six feet upon him from the temporary dam and flowed over and through the cribbing at a speed of 20 m.p.h. The cribbing was 12 feet wide, and the openings in the top were four by six feet and six to seven feet deep. From the rock abutment, Barrows, 43, civil engineer, jumped four feet across a crevice in the rock containing very rough water down to an iron pin, which projected two feet from the rock four feet lower than the point from which he had jumped. He landed on the pin with one foot, and without stopping, he jumped six feet down upon a log of the open cribbing which was under several inches of water. Without any support, Barrows worked his way a few feet along the log to water almost to his hips and then grasped LeClair’s hand, which was at the surface. Barrows had difficulty in maintaining his balance, and with great effort he raised LeClair and supported him until the end of a rope was tossed to him. LeClair was hauled up on the bank by means of the rope. Barrows edged back to the end of the dam and was then hauled up. 24667-1997
24667 – 1997
24667-1997